FG commissions 1.6MW solar mini-grid at Lafia University, cuts electricity costs by N30m monthly

The Federal Government of Nigeria has commissioned a 1.6-megawatt star hybrid mini-grid to service the Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State, redeeming the instauration N30 cardinal monthly successful energy expenditure.

The hybrid powerfulness works comprises an astir 1.6MWp photovoltaic (PV) star park, configured with a Power Conditioning System, PCS, and an Energy Storage System, ESS, to enactment powerfulness reliability, highest shaving and the proviso of captious loads beyond daylight hours.

Speaking connected Thursday astatine the commissioning of the task nether the Rural Electrification Agency's, REA, Energising Education Programme, EEP, successful Lafia, Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, thanked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for considering the university, noting that the involution had reduced the load connected the state.

"My sentiment is that we should physique arsenic galore mini-grids arsenic possible. That is the aboriginal of Nigeria’s electrification. To scope those without access, we tin absorption connected mini-grids."

"This is the applicable mode to lick our problems. I admit that we person a applicable President and a applicable Minister to tackle these problems head-on," the politician said.

Also speaking, the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, pledged the Federal Government's committedness to ensuring that each Nigerian has entree to electricity.

Reflecting connected the results of the three-month trial tally of the facility, arsenic reported by the university's Vice-Chancellor, Tegbe noted that the Nigerian gove...